Criterion gives new life to Kiarostami’s lovely, understated rumination on existential quandaries.
The drama here is in the gap between bystanders who return the camera’s gaze and those who don’t.
This magnificent set of essential restorations is a strong contender for Blu-ray release of the year.
A once-in-a-generation cinematic poet leaves us with a hypnotic, quietly enchanting farewell testament, but Criterion doesn’t fully rise to the occasion in properly honoring it.
Movement and progress are the organizing principles throughout Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames.
Mohammad Rasoulof and Abbas Kiarostami’s films ask fundamental questions without proffering easy answers.
Tsukamoto said that the driving influence of his breakout ’90s genre work was the concrete labyrinth of Tokyo.
Belluscone: A Sicilian Story plays like a mockumentary about contemporary Sicilian society.
In keeping with his recent work, Panahi turns the camera on himself and his own government-imposed creative struggles.
Kiarostami’s turn-of-the-millennium masterpiece arrives on a pristine-looking Blu-ray with an essential commentary track.
Kiarostami’s film comes to the Criterion Collection as perhaps the most elegant reference disc ever made.
Farhadi utilizes living quarters as an area of adversity rather than comfort.
The peril of prescription drug use is only one red herring that Scott Z. Burns throws out.
Essential viewing, if not only for its edutainment factor, but for the dynamism and felt resonance of its maker’s bounding enthusiasms.
Odds are strong that his knack for reinvention will require from you a high degree of flexibility and openness.
Kiarostami’s images evoke a sense of theatrical artifice rippling through the real world.
The film plays out as a city-mouse rejoinder to the rustic, open-air daydream of Certified Copy.
Kiarostami transplants his customary techniques to the soil of Japanese culture with unquestionable success.
Under a Tuscan sun, Kiarostami disguises an era-defining masterpiece.
The savvy filmgoer will target those films without distribution.